07-25-2006, 04:42 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby CSX 4995, Keith Craft built 427 SO
Posts: 1,168
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Originally Posted by Tim Brewer
Unless you're going to do a LOT of hiway driving, you will absoutly HATE a 3:08, 3:31 and even a 3:50. All of those gears will take away most of your fun factor for driving around town. With my CR toploader with 3:50's, I couldn't cruise through any parking lot at all without hopping and lunging all over the place. I now run a 3:73 and it works pretty good. I'm even thinking of possibly a 4:11. Check out www.secondstrike.com/technical/gearcalc.asp
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I run a 5 spd and a 4.11 final drive, but just a punched SB. I find 1st gear practically useless and sometime annoying! I've gotten to the point where I start off in 2nd gear now, just to get some "legs". I will be running a CR 4spd., toploader with a final drive of 3.54 in the new car when it gets here. I figure 60 mph in 1st and a top speed somewhere north of 150 is enough for me! The only concern I do have is the 2500+ rpm at highway speeds. I was out yesterday in my Classic and I ran it in 4th to get a feel for the noise at that rpm. IMHO, it was music! Love the sound of a great motor at rev! 
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"The 427 Cobra is easily the highest performance car ever sold for street use. A decent 427 - not the worst, not the best, will go from zero to 100 mph and back down again to zero in less than 14 seconds. All thing considered, you can put together a pretty good argument that the 427 Cobra is the ultimate performance car, judged on any basis you want to name." Taken from; Corvette, The Sensuous American 
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